University Adaptation in Difficult Economic Times

Paola Mattei (Ph.D. London School of Economics) is a Fellow at the European Studies Centre at St Antony's College, University of Oxford, and University Lecturer in Comparative Social Policy. Her research examines comparative welfare reforms, health care and comparative education policy reforms. She has published numerous articles on these subjects, as well as two books: Restructuring Welfare Organisations in Europe: From Democracy to Good Management? (Palgrave 2009) and Welfare Governance Reforms and Effects in the Post-Golden Age (Routledge 2010), edited with K. Voerhest. She is the Principal Investigator of an international research project on Welfare Reforms and Accountability (funded by the Norwegian Research Council).

• CONTENTS ; Part I. Funding: Pressures, Reforms, and Analytical Foundations ; Chapter 1 ; Public Accountability Reforms and Higher Education ; Paola Mattei ; Chapter 2 ; Dynamics of Convergence and Divergence. ; Exploring Accounts of Higher Education Policy Change ; Peter Maassen and Ase Gornitzka ; Chapter 3 ; Global pressures and national cultures: a Nordic University template? ; Tom Christensen, Ase Gornitzka, Peter Maassen ; Chapter 4 ; Financially Sustainable Universities: Challenges and Strategies in Times of Austerity ; Thomas Estermann and Enora Pruvot ; Chapter 5 ; Reforming Under Pressure. Higher Education Reforms in France (2006-2010) ; Corine Eyraud ; Part II. Internationalisation and Europeanization ; Chapter 6 ; The Value of Temporary Study Abroad: The ERASMUS Experience ; Ulrich Teichler ; Chapter 7 ; Europeanization and Higher Education: Comfortable Bedfellows? ; Jeroen Huisman ; Chapter 8 ; University Rankings: The Manifestation and Driver of Competition for Excellence ; Within the New Higher Education Landscape ; Jan Sadlak ; Part III. Massification of Higher Education: Strategies of Equality or Privatisation? ; Chapter 9 ; Privatisation of Higher Education in Central and Eastern Europe ; Jadwiga Koralewicz ; Chapter 10 ; Class and Ethnic Inequality in Educational Outcomes in an International Perspective ; Jan O. Jonsson ; Bibliography ; Index

"A new book tries to bring academic rigour to the 'evidence-free' debates on the funding of European universities. The book was designed to test 'the claims that governments are no longer committed to public higher education.' Contributors to the book went on to explore thelinks between the [two main strands of the 'modernisation agenda.']" -Matthew Reisz, Times Higher Education